Come Have Tea With Me!

It was tea party time! About 10 new friends came over and we had tea and cookies. It was a a nice evening of laughing and visiting.

I want to share the recipes though. They were good and easy - my favorite kind of recipes!

On the top plate:

Peanut Butter Cup Browies

1 box brownie mix

1/2 cup peanut butter chips

1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

3/4 cup creamy peanut butter

Preheat oven to 350. Spray or grease 40 mini muffin cups. Prepare boxed brownie mix as directed on box. Spoon batter evenly into muffin cups (about 1 heaping teaspoon.) Bake 10-12 minutes or until top is set and toothpick inserted into center comes out slightly wet. After brownies are out of oven, wiat for centers to fall. This will happen as cooling. If not, then tap with back of teaspoon to make hole for peanut butter.

Place peanut butter in small microwave safe bowl. Microwave on high for 45 seconds then stir, while brownies are still warm spoon about 1/2 teaspoon peanutbutter into center of each brownie. Top with semi-sweet chocolate chips and peanutbutter chips. Cool completely in pan.

Fruit Pizza Cookies

1 roll of sugar cookies

8 oz cream cheese

1/3 cup sugar

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

2 kiwi, 1 cup strawberries, 1 cup blueberries

Cook sugar cookies according to directions on package.

Beat softened cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla together. Top each cookies with cream cheese mixture then put a few slices of strawberry, kiwi and blueberry on each cookie.

Cranberry White Chocolate Pecan Cookies

Sift together:

3 cups all purpose flour

1 tsp. baking soda

3/4 tsp salt

Blend:

1 cup shortening

1 cup dark brown sugar, packed

3/4 cup sugar

Add 2 eggs, one at a time as blending with mixer.

Add flour mixture.

Add 1 tablespoon vanilla

Add 6 oz. of dried cranberry, 1 cup white chocolate chips, 1 cup chopped pecans

Drop dough on cookie sheets about 1 1/2 inches apart. Bake 10-12 minutes.

We had a choice of several kinds of tea - Blueberry tea, White tea, Spice tea, Orange tea...... So nice to have girlfriend time!!!!

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